Is “Small Ball” Good Enough for the Red Sox? // Mazz’s Tiers // Should Story and Mayer Swap Positions in the Field? - 4/9 (Hour 1)
Felger & Massarotti
Beasley Media Group
4.1 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
- (0:00) Felger, Mazz, and Murray open the show reacting to what Jared Carrabis had to say on The Baseball Hour last night about the Red Sox play style and if it’s sustainable.
- (13:36) The callers weigh in on the Red Sox and the Bruins.
- (22:55) Should the Red Sox consider moving Trevor Story to 2B and Marcelo Mayer to SS?
- (31:26) The latest Mazz’s Tiers!
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| 0:00.0 | We have a show to do today. |
| 0:02.5 | The whole new acronym thing drives me effing bennan. |
| 0:06.4 | Can we call him by his name? |
| 0:08.2 | Shelter and Man, 198-5, the Sports Hub. |
| 0:11.8 | The way they played today is it good enough to keep the minute and potentially get them in the playoffs? |
| 0:18.2 | I do believe that they're capable to play this well defensively moving forward. |
| 0:22.6 | But as far as the offense is concerned, yeah, like the way that certain run scoring |
| 0:28.0 | innings played out, it's been a lot of small ball. |
| 0:30.9 | But they're going to have to drive in runs. |
| 0:34.1 | Like you're not going to, like in the first game of the series, you know, |
| 0:37.6 | you had Trevor Story dump in an RBI base hit to shallow right field in front of Sal Freelick. Like, they're outfield. No disrespect to Sal. I love Sal. But, you know, there are outfielers that make that catch and it changes the course of a game. they need to be hitting, if you're not going to be hitting homers, |
| 0:53.1 | we need to be hitting doubles. |
| 0:54.5 | Like a guy like Jaron, it's like, all right, yeah, |
| 0:56.6 | he's not like a 25 homer guy. game. They need to be hitting, if you're not going to be hitting homers, we need to be hitting doubles. |
| 1:11.9 | Like a guy like Jaron, it's like, all right, yeah, he's not like a 25 homer guy, but he can be a 40 double guy. He can have plenty of extra base hits. You need to get guys like that going. Well, you're a bray you. He's been your standout offensive performer, but there's guys that are going to have to contribute from at least a double |
| 1:11.4 | standpoint. Like you can't just be in-field singling and sacrifice bunting teams to death. |
| 1:16.6 | Okay. So then basically your answer is no. |
| 1:19.6 | Is what they put on the field so far enough to get them into the playoffs? And the answer, |
| 1:23.6 | in so many words from him was, what was it again? No. No. |
| 1:28.3 | It was no. |
| 1:28.8 | Do you agree? |
| 1:31.3 | Not entirely. |
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